Although not many people seem to be buying it, Nintendo's next-gen console Wii U has been around for a year, its launch-day blues now a faded memory. Instead of half-baked non-entities, it can field games like Super Mario 3D World, which repurposes its heroic plumber's antics for multiple players, letting up to four people take on its gloriously shiny stages. Even for Nintendo, this has a spectacularly high degree of polish, each level a perfect little challenge that borrows mechanics from past Mario games and plunders Nintendo's wider catalogue in search of novelties to be used just once before being discarded. Beautiful to look at, brilliantly designed and near-perfectly realised, this is a rare treat to be savoured.